Which part of the UK do you live in and do you like it?

[phib]

East berksire / Monaco. Love Berkshire but its getting v busy lived in surey before.

Now need to move further down the m4 me thinks

Phib

[okgo]

I love the area around Winkfield but it seems you'd need to drive to the station for work whic would be painful!

[TomTheTyke]

As my username suggests I live in Yorkshire, specifically the proud town of Barnsley.

I am not daft, I know it's reputation: Michael Parkinson, Dickie Bird, Darren Gough, Arthur Scargill, coal mines, whippet walkers, pigeon fanciers, pie and peas eaters, flat cap wearers etc.

But I genuinely love it. I was born in Barnsley, went away to university (not out of God's own county of course, that would be madness) and came back. The people are friendly, straight talking and down to earth. I love the accent and the dialect and find it genuinely interesting and different. Yes there are a percentage of the population that are thoroughly unpleasant and there are a few gypsies and the like to boot but that is the same in any post-industrial area unfortunately, and it doesn't take the shine off my home town.

Also pie and peas with mint sauce is brilliant, you can keep your Southern muck with mash and what is 'liquor?' st gravy probably.

Si thi owd cock.

[16plates]

Ayrshire, Scotland.

Love it. Countryside, seaside, great roads, great views. Sh!t weather...

It is likely i'll be buying the SW of England later in the year with the gf, in or around Exeter. From what i've seen it looks OK - any locals fee free to give me the bare bones of it!

[Tonsko]

More than I thought in Shropshire! I grew up here, moved away, and have now moved back. Love it.

[Xaero]

Live (and work) in a small town on the western edge of Hertfordshire . It's lovely, but property is too expensive for me to buy (average house price went up 22% last year too) so will have to move out a bit when funds allow. Nice roads around but some are single tracks with blind corners so can't really take advantage of all of them.

Edited by Xaero on Thursday 5th March 18:10

Edited by Xaero on Monday 9th March 18:19

[jackthelad1984]

I'm in plymouth lived here most of my life, the city itself is ok, some nice bits and some bad bits same as any other city. But I love the fact that a few miles in any direction out of the city and I'm on good roads, countryside, moors, beaches, nice villages etc. As soon as I can afford it I'm moving out to the countryside!

[Adam B]

TomTheTyke said:

Also pie and peas with mint sauce is brilliant, you can keep your Southern muck with mash and what is 'liquor?' st gravy probably.

As a southerner, I eat my pies with mash AND peas (and gravy, mint sauce goes on lamb)

and liqour is American for booze AFAIK

[northwest monkey]

16plates said:

It is likely i'll be buying the SW of England later in the year with the gf

What, all of it?

[schmunk]

Adam B said:

liqour is American for booze AFAIK

Yes, but no.

[Spudmaster]

Tonsko said:

More than I thought in Shropshire! I grew up here, moved away, and have now moved back. Love it.

Me too- small village off the A49 North of Shrewsbury- beautiful countryside, good roads, Shrewsbury is a great town, great people, cracking pubs etc etc... Graveyard of ambition- true... But worth commuting back home to at the end of the day- I'd rather do that than live anywhere else!

[ARH]

North west Shropshire for me, on the Welsh border. Moved up from Fleet in Hampshire 2.5 years ago. Would not be anywhere else.

[Pillskii]

Live in London and don't like it - too busy, mega expensive to rent, not car friendly and travelling anywhere at peak times is hell. Maybe i'm just not used to it as i'm from Edinburgh which is a relatively calm, small-ish city with access to many great roads just outside the city limits.

Here for another year with work before I can move home and I cannot wait.

[LivingTheDream]

chrisb92 said:

LivingTheDream said:

Another one living in Baldock here!!

Been in many places before:
Nottingham
Rutland
North Norfolk
Huntingdon
Leeds
Hitchin

no way! didn't know there were so many petrol heads in baldock! are you over town direction or clothall?

Weston way

[theboss]

Spudmaster said:

Tonsko said:

More than I thought in Shropshire! I grew up here, moved away, and have now moved back. Love it.

Me too- small village off the A49 North of Shrewsbury- beautiful countryside, good roads, Shrewsbury is a great town, great people, cracking pubs etc etc... Graveyard of ambition- true... But worth commuting back home to at the end of the day- I'd rather do that than live anywhere else!

Home in countryside near Much Wenlock; office in Marylebone. Best of both worlds. OK so I stay down a fair amount midweek but I share the sentiment about not living anywhere else even if it involves some commutes which border on ridiculous.

Quite a few Salopians here (native or adopted), it would seem.

[RobM77]

GetCarter said:

RobM77 said:

I'm in West Berkshire out in the countryside. It's not my/our ideal location (that'd be GetCarter's!), but I don't have my ideal job (that'd be GetCarter's too!!.

Good plan!

I lived for 30 years in London: Harrow, Camden, West Hampstead, Southgate, North Finchley, Cockfosters, Barnet, Wood Green, Islington, Hampstead, then dodgy Essex, piss poor Reading, then rural Berkshire, then Oxfordshire, then the nutter Cotswolds, then the best bit of the Lake District (by far), and now here.

I'm running out of north! It gets better the further I get away from London!

Yes, that generally tends to be the trend as one goes further north! More countryside, more friendly people, and more property for your money. I love astronomy and am very envious of the dark skies you must get up your way.

Whereabouts in rural Berkshire were you? We're west of Newbury and moved here last year.

My music writing and recording has only been at an amateur unpaid level, but my ultimate dream would be to either do that or writing (of the prosaical kind) and then be able to relocate anywhere I wanted; which to be honest could well be in rural Germany or France rather than the UK, which is something we looked seriously at before moving house last year, although work, as ever, got in the way.

[GetCarter]

RobM77 said:

Yes, that generally tends to be the trend as one goes further north! More countryside, more friendly people, and more property for your money. I love astronomy and am very envious of the dark skies you must get up your way.

Whereabouts in rural Berkshire were you? We're west of Newbury and moved here last year.

I was in Finchampstead, south of Wokingham, farmhouse in the middle of a field 1000 yards from the Tally Ho pub (which I think is now re-named). 1980-1.

Good luck with the music. It's a tough industry to get into, but hardly *work* when you are there.

Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 28th January 16:28

[speedchick]

Manchester born and dragged up.

Moved to the 'delightful' town of Todmorden 20 odd years ago, as soon as I could I fled back over the border and lived in Burnley for a while, then migrated just outside of Burnley. (It's nicer here than Burnley proper).

As someone said earlier, easy reach of Manchester, the Yorkshire Dales, Blackpool, Preston and the Lakes, and have the stunning scenery that is Pendle Hill.

[northwest monkey]

speedchick said:

Manchester born and dragged up.

Moved to the 'delightful' town of Todmorden 20 odd years ago, as soon as I could I fled back over the border and lived in Burnley for a while, then migrated just outside of Burnley. (It's nicer here than Burnley proper).

As someone said earlier, easy reach of Manchester, the Yorkshire Dales, Blackpool, Preston and the Lakes, and have the stunning scenery that is Pendle Hill.

Very similar to me. Manchester born (still have the Manc twang - especially when I've had a drink) then moved up here when I was 20 after a day out at the ski slope (not literally after - about 4 months later). Whenever I go back down to Manchester now it depresses me. It's only once I've gone past Bury on the M66 I start to cheer up again - that and turn the heater up in the car a bit.

21 years later & as I'm sat here in my office at home watching the hills turn white with snow I'd say I'm pretty happy where I am. Want to retire to the NW Highlands though as it's the only other place I've been to that just feels "right".

[rouge59]

northwest monkey said:

speedchick said:

Manchester born and dragged up.

Moved to the 'delightful' town of Todmorden 20 odd years ago, as soon as I could I fled back over the border and lived in Burnley for a while, then migrated just outside of Burnley. (It's nicer here than Burnley proper).

As someone said earlier, easy reach of Manchester, the Yorkshire Dales, Blackpool, Preston and the Lakes, and have the stunning scenery that is Pendle Hill.

Very similar to me. Manchester born (still have the Manc twang - especially when I've had a drink) then moved up here when I was 20 after a day out at the ski slope (not literally after - about 4 months later). Whenever I go back down to Manchester now it depresses me. It's only once I've gone past Bury on the M66 I start to cheer up again - that and turn the heater up in the car a bit.

21 years later & as I'm sat here in my office at home watching the hills turn white with snow I'd say I'm pretty happy where I am. Want to retire to the NW Highlands though as it's the only other place I've been to that just feels "right".

Hello neighbours.

• typing as I look out of my lounge window at a snowy Pendle Hill*